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Valve Corporation is an American game development and distribution company well known for their popular titles Half Life, Counter Strike, and DOTA, and, of course, for their PC game client Steam.

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Valve introduce Steam points that let users get profile rewards

Valve have introduced a new feature to their popular distribution service Steam - points, which will let players get avatars and various user rewards.

JUNE 25

CS: GO players win tournament, get banned for cheating afterwards

Well, better late than never we suppose, but Red Bull were still left in a peculiar situation where they had to ban the winners of the Red Bull Flick Finland National Final CS: GO event.

MAY 29

Most Half-Life: Alyx bottles are now filled with booze

Valve folks decided to use the lockdown period to further improve the already impressive physics and environment interaction in Half-Life: Alyx by adding liquid shaders to bottles.

MAY 28

Steam Cloud Gaming pops up in in Valve's code again

It's been a while since the first report of Steam Cloud Gaming service but data miners now stumbled upon yet another mention of the service in Valve's code.

MAY 26

Dota 2's The International 10 battle pass lasts longer and offers several personas

Valve dropped the latest Dota 2 battle pass, filled to the brim with desirable cosmetics. Many eyes are on the new Anti-Mage persona which may just be in reach without paying for levels due to extended BP length.

MAY 26

Artifact 2.0 beta test invites starting soon for some players

Valve released a blog post detailing some of their progress with the testing of the attempt to revitalise Artifact and mentioned that some players interested in participating in beta will get invites next week.

MAY 19

Valve working on Steam's loyalty rewards system, user review reactions

It looks like Valve are preparing a special treat for Steam users, especially those who are religiously loyal to the platform, as data mining uncovered a loyalty reward system.

MAY 11

Half-Life: Alyx hitting new milestones as SteamVR drops Mac support

Valve's launch of Half-Life: Alyx is already proving itself as a genius move for wider VR adoption, but GabeN and Co had to make a few sacrifices along the way.

MAY 5

Artifact is getting singleplayer

Valve's attempt at a Dota 2 inspired TCG, Artifact, released to abysmal reception and now the devs are trying to revive it. One of the highlights is the addition of a singleplayer campaign.

APRIL 21

Counter-Strike:Global Offensive nerfs Krieg SG553

CS:GO players have been having trouble with the Krieg / SG553 ever since the weapon's price was reduced in late 2018. Thankfully, the time for the nerf has finally arrived but AUG was not left untouched either.

APRIL 11

Team Fortress 2's server crashing exploit has been fixed

Valve have updated Team Fortress 2, much to players' surprise and delight in equal part. The update is small when it comes to notes but the server crashing exploit that was ruining everyone's day is now fixed.

APRIL 8

CS:GO monthly active user numbers reached 24 million in February

According to Superdata's latest report, Counter-Stike: Global Offensive player count peaked at 24 million in February 2020, which is the highest level ever for the nearly eight-year-old online shooter.

Semir OmerovicMARCH 23

Half-Life: Alyx set to be Steam's biggest launch of 2020 yet

It now looks like Half-Life: Alyx could be doing for VR adoption what it did for the FPS genre with the first instalment in the franchise. At the time of writing, there's said to be more than 300,000 preorders, almost half of which are Valve Index owners.

MARCH 20

ESL Pro League: s1mple's one man show was not enough as NaVi go 0-2

So far we've seen some quality Counter-Strike goodness from the group B teams. s1mple had an incredible performance once again, ending the game with a 119,1 ADR. BIG and forZe have now won both of their two matches and they currently sit on the top of this group.

MARCH 20

Mike Booth, of Left 4 Dead fame, joins Resolution Games

Resolution Games recently had an experienced industry veteran, Mike Booth, join its board of directors. He has quite a few achievements under his belt, with creating Left 4 Dead being the crown jewel among them.

MARCH 18

Here is when you can start Half-Life: Alyx preload

Valve have officially confirmed the pre-load date for their highly anticipated VR title Half-Life: Alyx. Steam users will be able to start downloading the game on Friday, 20 March 2020.

Semir OmerovicMARCH 18

Steam Game Festival is coming with over 40 games in spotlight

Valve held the first Steam Game Festival back in December 2019 along with Geoff Keighley and the two parties are organising another one for the spring of 2020, featuring over 40 games that couldn't showcase themselves at conventions.

MARCH 18

Dota 2: patch 7.25 is out and there are some big changes

Dota 2 patch 7.25 is out and it's introduced some big changes regarding the pick phase, Heroes, and items, which will certainly have a huge impact on the current state of the game. The number of comebacks will surely go up with the adjustments to the Bounty system.

MARCH 17

Upcoming Dota 2 tournaments cancelled due to Covid-19

Valve announced that their esports events in Dota 2 will get hit by the disruption caused by the Coronavirus outbreak, just a week after cancelling ESL One Los Angeles.

MARCH 17

CS: GO hits 1 million concurrent players for the first time in its history

Valve's online shooter Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has hit 1 million concurrent players on Steam for the first time in the game's long and rich history, which spans over 20 years. The game peaked at 1.001.756 players.

Semir OmerovicMARCH 14

Steam gets more event visibility via Labs

Valve folks are pushing more experiments through Steam Labs and the latest one pertains to news about games in a user's library. Events will be more visible and chances of missing out lower than ever.

MARCH 5

Half-Life: Alyx gameplay shows teleport and smooth locomotion movement

Valve initially had the fans worried with the new gameplay footage from Half-Life: Alyx since the first of the three new gameplay videos featured teleportation locomotion movement. However, these were designed to showcase three different motion modes.

MARCH 3

Fan made Half-Life remake Black Mesa is finally launching next month

After more than 14 years of development, Black Mesa 1.0, the complete version of the fan-made Half-Life remake will finally launch via Steam on 05 March 2020.

Semir OmerovicFEBRUARY 25

Valve confirm Half-Life: Alyx release date, no delays as promised

Just as we started seeing complaints popping up over Valve's vague 'March release' promise for Half-Life: Alyx, GabeN and Co came through and set the date for 23 March 2020. So, you still have time to get that VR headset.

FEBRUARY 13

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